Originally Posted by
Bob Viking 
It’s easy to find reasons why not but I bet an Army Garrison CO could have found ways to borrow steps and fire engines if it meant helping his Soldiers out.
If I remember rightly, when EGNX had a diverted DC10 ( I think it was), they had no steps that could reach the door, so the SLF had to sit in the aircraft while a set was driven over from BHX before they could deplane, and that took several hours. It's not as simple as you infer, you cannot pick up a set from your local tool hire company.